long term solutions

Treehugger had a design competition for shelters made from carts and the entries are....well, you decide what they are.

I was browsing the comments when I came across this one:

Wearing rain gear and stickers reading, “Guess what?

While we cry the blues about gas prices, we allow the left to inhibit any REAL LONG TERM SOLUTIONS on Domestic self-sufficiency.

So instead of ensuring these folks have a roof over their heads, protecting them from the elements and the vagaries of the street, we'll toss em directly into the wild, thereby damned near guaranteeing additional costs to society from increased ER visits, police interventions, court costs, and the thousand other hidden costs of homelessness that continue to ble

By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • February 19, 2008

Nashville’s struggling city hospital will be able to use another $11.5 million to finish the current budget year after the Metro Council approved a loan extension and increase tonight.

The council voted 34-3 to help Nashville General Hospital at Meharry, which serves many poor and indigent patients who have no medical insurance. The hospital will have another year to pay off the loan, which is now almost $32 m

Dear Truman,

As a key member in our American Solutions movement, I am eager to share with you some very exciting news about a project of ours that is making headlines across the country.